The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-02

cement of air. His escort plotted him to
Pace on Twentv-fourth street, in the rear
81 The Hoffman House. Two big lamps in
'front.' of the entrance bore the words:
TURKISH. RUSSIAN.
.................... ...........,..x
.I,n, going to give you Turkish bath"
aid the strangers conductor. You have
never had one, presume.
nT The ne stranger admitted that he had never
onio yed an Oriental ablution and his escort
Nothing like Turkish bath to boil the
effects of a late dinner out OF you and
#hrghten YOU up for business.
< voung man that talked like mother
,ybo is afraid of waking the baby welcomed
NE stranger in the little office of the bath
bonse and led him over a carpet soft as
Ether he'd TO a room full of hunks sepa-
%.oted from each other by curtains hung on
1910 a little higher than the head. Sub
9ued LIGHT pervaded the place, and a gentle
Snore proceeded from one berth. The
Granger entered a compartment containing
4 couch and what looked IKE hexagonal
horse block The soft-voiced young man
said:
q please peell'
81 The stranger embarrassed. Then the at
PENDANT girded him about with a long
Trash towel and invited him out. The at
&endant and his curious charge threaded
marrow massage between two rows of berths.
Ia door was thrown open and the stranger
Imagined that he had made mistake and
lot into the furnace of the establishment. 1t
kyas a large iron-walled room. There were
In it many chairs with foot-reSt attachments.
How these chairs endured the place without
& 'combustingn was mystery
u The attendant asked the stranger to sit
&own and make himself at home. As he
had never been to Gehenna the novice
#couldn't exactly do it, but he sat down and
3bade farewell to earth. The attendant went
&out and shut the door. The stranger actu-
ally breathed Every breath seemed to
#broil his lungs. He began to wonder what
Bort Of delicacy roasted man would be. His
feet were done first, then his arms were
#cooked, and then his checks thawed out.
His sense of smell survived the ordeal, and
the subtle Odor of the absinthe that he had
#drank appeared to pervade all the place.
& Every pore in his body wept with anguish
lat the ordeal The attendant came in with
a wet towel and put it on his head In a
minute the towel was steaming. Then the
attendant fetched a silver mug full of cold
water, which the novice drank with the
lurking suspicion that the intense heat
would convert it into steam and blow him
up He sat down and reflected on his sins,
and waited for the explosion.
Twenty minutes elapsed. Every pore in
d his body had become an artesian yell.
/ Finally the door opened, and a man not
overdressed entered. He wore finger ring
/ and towel. He was perfect Hercules in
I build, and every muscle was well developed.
He asked the stranger if he desired to enter
the hot room.
"What in the thunder do you call thisg'
asked the sufferer. is this your refrigera-
tor?n
Hercules smiled and said "This is $50 de-
grees hot That room in there is much hot
ter Some gentlemen prefer it."
IF you have nice cool apartment in the
furnace Of the hotel l would like it, )" said the
stranger.
Hercules felt Of the sufferers shins, and
said
You seem to be perspiring we'll"
Il seem to be expiring" retorted the vic
tim.
Please step this way" said Hercules.
tie led his victim across the hall into a
damp room with what looked like wet dis
secting table at one side. A silver mounted
hose hung suspiciously from one wall, and
the top OF big pepper box looked down
from the ceiling. Hercules laid out his vic
tim on the dissection table, apparently for
the last sad rites of the ceremony. He drew
a copper dish pan full of warm water from
the silver-mounted hose, dipped his soft,
strong hands in the water and gave the sub
1ect vigorous scrubbing. He washed and
wTung out the subjects limbs, and every
square inch of the cuticle gave up its secrets.
Than he took a currycomb and went over
tne victim. Hesoaped the manly frame of
tAe person, and sweetly asked if he should
Use sitter brush
II you have garden rake or some gem
ue instrument, please use that, 4" said the vic
TIM
Hercules was perspiring himself. Great
peadS OF sweat stood all over his rounded
pOiy, and the light Illuminated them until
leiooked like diamond-mounted man.
Nhen he had cuIried his subject and
saped his head, Hercules hlandly asked him
70 70 SIT up on the edge of the dissecting table.
l men Hercules went over and toyed with the
sMVer-mounted hose amoment. An ominous
Mss followed, and a second later the victim
was Trying IN vain to catch his breath. Her
cues had turned the hose on him. The Gro
ION river and the Atlantic ocean were, it
seemed, after the poor, defenseleSs wretch on
the dlssecting table In vain he swung his
arms and tried TO get Hercules to behave
hlnSelt. His eyes and mouth got full of
soap ana water, and his breath refused to be
caught.
IN the early part of the torture the water
i aau come from the temperate zone. Then
'D'N teiiNa Vi anu IIlt lIOoUJ
IIfeelles OF the Arctic shot into every pore.
hercules calmly held the hose and the vic
i,N'l, VINO few minutes before had been, as
" thought, thousand degrees above zero,
W'S now away down in the basement of the
: thermometer. His teeth chartered vain
protest, but Hercules held to the hose and
HePt on. Then Hercules took his limp sub
lect under the end of the inverted pepper
TX ana all the previous misery was forgot
W. %h IN the agonyof that relentless shower. A
thousand aqueous needles came down with
tearlHl torce and pierced tho victims de-
tehseleSs body After about q thousand
ye'uS OF this torture Hercules said, please
step out this way.n
l. Inc subject wondered what new torture
u ut uendlsh ingenuity would next invent
aieIcuie5 conducted the wretch TO the hall
asUl kindly mopped the soap and water out
~ us eyes and wrlmg him out. When he
n,pl partially wiped his subject he hung him
guO 10 dry. He produced u table cloth,
berth. NM JUN
-. nc worst Of the ordeal was over. Her.
s tiHles gave the novice n warm drink and
wen lald him out in his bunk, tucked him
up as tenderly as mother does her babe,
S rlri told him 10 go to sleep. This untram-
d tIeie4 way Of sleeping as Adam must have
iS "l before the cotton factory was invented,
- very unique. The subjects pores con-
s Sllued TO weep gently, and man in the
"o&J berth snored with sonoroils emphasis.
AZ was 3 q. m. and fifty men were sleeping